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THOMAS A. DUGDALE, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. DUGDALE, of the city of Richmond, countyof l/Vayne, and Statelof Indiana, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Machines for Tashing Garments and other Fabrics, and dohereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention consists in the employment of vibratingframes with rollers at their lower ends hung behind two wash boards insuch a way that their tendency will be against the wash boards incliningthem together while clothes or other articles are being washed betweenthem, and also the employment of circular plates attached to the washbox in the proper place for the cord (that holds down the wash boards)to pass through into a knob provided with a pin adjusted to holes in theouter edge of the said plate. Said cords being secured to the back sideof t-he box and passing over the rollers are passed through the front ofthe box and secured to the knob, so that by turning the knob the cord istwisted and held to any desired length by the pin in the knob beinginserted in a hole in said plate.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being hadto the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the machine complete. Thefaint lines on the front marked FFare designed to show the position ofthe frames and rollers when hung inside of the front and of the back ofthe machine, the parts being marked with let-ters corresponding with theletters in other figures hereinafter described, viz., A being a boxabout eighteen inches wide and twenty inches high and twenty eightinches long. B B are two wash boards with rollers attached at the topand bottom of each lengthwise with the wash boards, as D D in Fig. 3,and turning on small journals; C, a wash board attached to a lever J, asshown in Fig. 4. A part of said wash board is made to slide up andreceive `the clothes and when pushed down may be secured by means of aset screw or in any other convenient way, when the clothes may be workedup and down between the wash boards B B by means of the lever J. D D,rollers attached to the top of wash boards B B. E E are `cords passingover the rollers in the top ofthe wash board and secured to the backside of the box and passing through the front side of the box andthrough the plate G, as Fig. 7, and secured to the knob H, as Fig. 6.Said cords prevent the wash boards from rising, and serve to press saidwash boards toward or on the bottom of the box. F F, the vibrating frameand roller which should be hung so as to incline against the back of thewash boards. They may be hung on hinges or on a rod extending from oneend to the other of the ma chine, thereby inclining the bottom of thewash board toward the center.. Gr, G, the plates for holding the knob H,by means of the pin m,- H, the knob; m, the pin; z', projection to whichthe lever is attached; J, the lever. K K represents two inclined planesterminating at the center of the box and placed crosswise at each end ofthe box, and designed to incline the rollers and wash boards to thecenter of the box while resting up on them.

Fig. 2 represents a vertical section, L being a part of the box; B B,the wash boards as shown in Fig. 3; B, the wash board; D D, rollers asdescribed in Fig. l; C, the wash board attached to a lever as describedin Fig. l. E is a cord passing over the rollers in the top of the washboards, also described in Fig. l; F, F, F, F, frames and rollers asdescribed in Fig. l; G, the plate as describedin Fig. l; I-I, the knob;m the pin as also described in Fig. l; K K, inclined planes at the endsand on the bottom of the box as described in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 represents the wash board with a roller at the top and bottom; B,the wash board; D D, the rollers.

Fig. 4 represents a wash board attached to a lever; C, the wash board;J, the lever. Fig. 5 represents the frame and rollers F, F. Fig. 6represents the knob H and pin m. Fig. 7 represents the plate G-all ofwhich have been referred to in Figs. 1 and 2. There may if desired be astrip nailed on each end of the box inside to prevent the wash boardscoming together. All the parts should be made suiiiciently loose whennew to allow for the wood swelling so that the Working parte may notbind or become tight which will retard the operation of the machine.

What I claim as my invention and desire 5 to secure by Letters Patent sCombining the Vibrating frames and rollers F, F, F, F, the plate G, theknob H,

and pin m with the Wash boards B, and rollers D, substantially as abovedescribed.

THOS. A. DUGDALE.

l/Vtnesses:

JOHN FINLEY, JEREMIAH HADLEY.

